Early in the conflict, British forces were focused on developing tanks that could combat the German Army's Panzer fleet on ...

First deployed by the U.K. in 1941, the A22 Infantry Tank Mk. IV, or Churchill tank, played a significant role in numerous military operations, including the Normandy invasion. Due to the ...

The memorial, a Churchill AVRE Mark IV tank, is on permanent display at Sword Beach in Normandy next to the Liberty monument commemorating British soldiers who died in France. The crash happened ...